Saturday, September 13, 2014

FW 1.31-42 --Mutt is a fallen man--

synopsis: the dialogue of Mutt and Jute begins — memories of the battle of Clontarf

FDV:
"Jute— Are you Jeff?
Mutt— Someward.
Jute— You are not a jeffmute?
Mutt— No, only an utterer
Jute— What is the mutter with you?
Mutt— I became a stummer.
Jute— What turrurrurrurrible thing to because! How?
Mutt— Aput the buttle.
Jute— Whose Poddle? Wherein?
Mutt— The Inns of Dungtarf." →
"Jute— Jute!Mutt— Much Mutts pleasure.
Jute— Are you Jeff?
Mutt— Someward.
[no changes]Jute— Whose Poddle? Wherein?
Mutt— The Inns of Dungtarf where used ought to be."

JUTE: Yutah! MUTT: Mukk's pleasurad.

Mutt and Jeff: American comic-strip characters

Mutt is tall and married and bets on horses, Jeff is short and an inmate of insane asylum [wiki]

you there!
Utah, USA?

much pleasure had (at meeting you)
why pleasurAD?

(at this point it's still not clear who's the newcomer/superior)

JUTE: Are you jeff? MUTT: Somehards.

deaf

somewhat
hard of hearing

(Shem has eye problems, Shaun ear problems)

(who's asking who, and what provoked the question? wasn't it the caveman who didn't hear the newcomer approach?)

JUTE: But you are not jeffmute? MUTT: Noho. Only an utterer.

VI.B1.68: 'deafmute'

slang: nohow
Noah, Nehemiah

utterer: (legal) one who passes counterfeit coins
stutterer

JUTE: Whoa? Whoat is the mutter with you? MUTT: I became a stun a stummer.